Click on the correct answer in the quiz below.
Then see if you can find the word in your newspaper -- the print edition, the website or the digital edition and copy the sentence for context. NOTE: High School words are much harder to find!
1. To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
2. To finish successfully
3. An inadequate amount of something; a shortage
4. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defense.
5. Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
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